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37 unusual facts about Prague


Antonín Rezek

Antonín Rezek (13 January 1853 Jindřichův Hradec – 4 February 1909 Prague) was a renowned Czech political historian, specialized in political and religious history of the 16th to 18th century.

Celtic Tiger Live

Another preview show was planned for Prague in the Czech Republic, but at the last minute that show was cancelled due to the venue (which included a massive stage specially built for the show) was unsafe for the dancers.

Cossackia

Calls for an independent Cossackia emerged within the vibrant émigré Cossack community in Prague, Czechoslovakia, later in the 1920s.

Crazy Jane

Jane makes a cameo appearance in Teen Titans #36, where she is seen on Danny the World through a portal in Dayton Manor in Prague.

Czech Hydrometeorological Institute

The head office and centralized workplaces of the CHMI, including the data processing, telecommunication and technical services, are located at the Institute's own campus in Prague.

Dan Lynch

After retiring from football he completed a MBA at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and moved to work in Central Europe and now resides in Prague, Czech Republic.

Daniel E. Freeman

Daniel Evan Freeman (born 27 April 1959) is an American musicologist who specializes in European art music of the eighteenth century, in particular the musical culture of eighteenth-century Prague and the Bohemian lands.

Doppler effect

The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift), named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who proposed it in 1842 in Prague, is the change in frequency of a wave (or other periodic event) for an observer moving relative to its source.

European Academy of Music Theatre

On 26 May 1992 the European Academy of Music Theatre was founded in Prague's Ständetheater by the Research Institute for Music Theatre Thurnau (Germany), Vanemuine Theatre, Tartu (Estonia), Academy of Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic) and the Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna (Austria).

Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague

Located in a new, award-winning campus-like facility of Charles University in the Prague district of Jinonice, the school has 200 faculty members and approximately 2 000 students.

Gunther of Bohemia

Gunther died at about the age of ninety in Hartmanice, Bohemia, on 9 October 1045, in the arms of Duke Bretislaus of Bohemia and of the Bishop of Prague.

Indo-Parthian Kingdom

A palette from the Naprstek Museum in Prague shows an Indo-Parthian king seated crossed-legged on a large sofa, surrounded by two attendants also in Parthian dress.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

Jan Pinkava

Jan Jaroslav Pinkava, Ph.D. (born 21 June 1963, in Prague) is the director and writer of the Pixar Oscar-winning 1997 short film Geri's Game and the originator and co-director of Pixar's Oscar-winning 2007 film Ratatouille.

Jaroslav Dietl

Jaroslav Dietl (22 May 1929, Zagreb – 29 June 1985, Prague) was a Czechoslovak scenarist of series.

Johann Friedrich Schannat

In 1735 the Archbishop of Prague, Count Moriz von Manderscheid, sent Schannat to Italy to collect material for a history of the councils.

Johann Josef Loschmidt

The first was a Bohemian priest, Adalbert Czech, who persuaded Loschmidt's parents to send young Josef to high school in the Piarist monastery in Schlackenwerth and, in 1837, to advanced high-school classes in Prague.

Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein

Born at Prague, Joseph Wenzel was the eldest son of Prince Philip Erasmus of Liechtenstein (11 September 1664 – 13 January 1704) and Countess Christina Theresa von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (12 October 1665 – 14 April 1730).

Jules Védrines

After a long delay in Nancy, on 20 November Védrines circumvented the ban by the transparent ruse of heading west on taking off from Nancy, changing course for Prague when out of sight of the airfield.

Laterna Magika

Laterna Magika is a nonverbal theatre located in Prague.

Letná Park

Letná's elevation and location afford commanding views of the Prague Old Town (Staré Město).

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Letná Park (in Czech Letenské sady) is a large park on Letná hill, built on a plateau above steep embankments along the Vltava River in Prague, Czech Republic.

Marie Javorkova

She studied under Professor Karel Rusin VUT - foundry, sculpture and with more Professors at the Prague Academy of Art.

MTX Tatra V8

After it passed driving tests at the Tatra polygon races at Kopřivnice, at airport in Mošnov and at autodrom in Most, it was finally introduced to the public in October 1991 at the auto show in Prague.

Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko

As the tide of the war turned against the Germans, she fled west, first to Lviv, then to Prague, and finally to Bavaria.

National Gallery in Prague

St. George's Convent (Hradčany) was formerly used to display Art of the Middle Ages in Bohemia and Central Europe, Baroque art, and 19th-century art of Bohemia.

Nijmegen breakage syndrome

Mrs Seemanova MD after whom the name of the syndrome was given, currently works at Motol Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, as a Professor of medical genetics.

Prague-Velká Chuchle Racecourse

On May 13, 1911, racetrack engineer Jan Kaspar landed his airplane Blériot XI on the racetrack.

Prague, Oklahoma

On May 24, 1952, Indian mystic Meher Baba was seriously injured in a head-on automobile collision near Prague.

Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet

He moved to Prague in 1947, returned to the Foreign Office again in 1949 as head of the Southern Europe department with the rank of Counsellor, and was posted to Paris in 1951 with the same rank.

The Adventure of the Creeping Man

It was only through a letter from a friend sent to Mr. Bennett that the family learnt that Professor Presbury had been to Prague.

The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives

At the same time, John Harding comes back from Prague with a new wife who is far from the normal size two socialites of Hunting Hill.

University of Business in Prague

The University of Business in Prague (VSO Praha) is a not-for-profit private university in Prague, Czech Republic.

University of International and Public Relations Prague

The University of International and Public Relations Prague (in Czech: Vysoká škola mezinárodních a veřejných vztahů Praha) is a private university in Prague, specializing in bachelors and masters degrees in international and public relations.

Vladimir Jankélévitch

From 1927 to 1932 he taught at the Institut Français in Prague, where he wrote his doctorate on Schelling.

William Morfill

He first visited Russia in 1870 and Prague in 1871, learning languages as he travelled; a visit to Georgia in 1888 led to an article on Georgian literature.

World Scrabble Championship 2013

The Scrabble Champions Tournament 2013 (formerly World Scrabble Championship) was held in the Andel's Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic, from 4 December to 8 December 2013.


1999 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Qualifying

The 1999 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Qualifying rounds took place over November 11th to November 13th, 1999 in Prague, Czech Republic.

2008 World University Cycling Championship

Prague, Czech Republic and Bangkok, Thailand were also candidate cities to organize the championship.

Adolf Heyduk

After finishing his studies in 1859, he then became a teacher in Prague, then later in Písek.

Aleksander Brückner

He was a member of many learned societies, including the Polish Academy of Learning in Kraków, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lemberg, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as well as academies in Prague and Belgrade.

Alfréd Meissner

In 1930 Meissner was made honorary president of the conference of the International Association of Penal Law in Prague.

Anatol Provazník

He studied "radiophony" in Berlin and after return to Prague he helped to set up the music department of the Czech Radio.

Bohumil Hrabal

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé), Prague: CS, 1964.

Bolko III of Strzelce

Bolko III spent much of his time at the courts of King Charles in Prague and King Louis I in Buda.

Carl Menger

After attending Gymnasium he studied law at the Universities of Prague and Vienna and later received a doctorate in jurisprudence from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Central European Australian Football League Championships

The 2006 EU Cup was to be held in Paris, but when organisers cancelled the event, the CEAFL championships were instead arranged to be hosted in Prague by the Czech Lions.

Charlotte Fritz

When two executives of the Gestapo showed up and asked for Edeltrud's fiancé, Charlotte denied any presence of the man who lived with his brothers in Prague at that time.

Chittaprosad Bhattacharya

He is represented in the National Museum, Prague, The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Osians Art Archive, Mumbai, and the Jane and Kito de Boer Collection, Dubai.

Cinema City Czech Republic

On 19.1.2011 cinema city bought, as a part of a bigger European deal, 8 multiplexes (4 of them in Prague) from Palace Cinemas with 65 screens.

Count Lützow

Perhaps his greatest accomplishments are his various books regarding the history of Bohemia, Prague, Slavic poetry, Historiography and Literature.

Dětmarovice

The power station is situated on an important main railway line from Prague/Vienna to Warsaw.

Exakta

An Exakta camera, loaded with salvaged movie film, was used by Czech photographer Josef Koudelka to capture his historic photojournalistic images of the 1968 Prague Spring.

Frantisek Kotzwara

The Battle of Prague was a popular piece of music during the late 18th and 19th centuries, with Mark Twain mentioning the piece in his books Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Tramp Abroad.

František Tomášek

František Tomášek (30 June 1899, Studénka, Moravia – 4 August 1992, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, the 34th Archbishop of Prague, and a Roman Catholic theologian.

Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau

Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau (April 30, 1814 in Klatovy – October 24, 1852 in Prague) was Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Würzburg and later at the University of Prague.

Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence

After graduation he acted as tutor to two sons of Jan Masaryk, travelling with the family to the United States of America, and Prague.

Free Judges

However, the King broke his promise only two years lated, when his friend Arnošt of Pardubice, who was Archbishop of Prague donated the two villages of Starków and Szalejów Dolny, which belonged to him and his two brothers, to the Canons Regular of Glatz.

George Mansour

Other journalistic responsibilities included broadcasting at Radio Free Iraq in Prague, correspondent of Az Zaman and Al-Mutamar newspapers based in London, England, reporter at Sawt Alshab Al Iraqi radio based in Saudi Arabia and Radio Canada International based in Toronto and Senior Advisor for the International Organization for Migration - Canada.

Gerhard Kowalewski

Kowalewski was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, the Société Mathématique de France, and socially associated with members of the Louvre Circle and Prague intellectual elite, which included Berta Fanta, Oskar Kraus, Franz Kafka, Hugo Bergmann, Philipp Frank, Albert Einstein, and Christian von Ehrenfels.

I European Union Piano Competition

The I European Union Piano Competition took place in Prague and Ostrava from June 24–29, 2009, as part of the cultural program accompanying the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Jan Bor

Jan Bor, real name Jan Jaroslav Strejček (16 February 1886 in Prague – 25 March 1943 in Zámostí, Hluboká nad Vltavou) was a Czech director and playwright.

Jan Rezek

In 2003 he won the Czech Cup with FK Teplice, one year later he won the cup with Sparta Prague.

Jeffrey Douma

Choirs under his direction have appeared in Leipzig's Neue Gewandhaus, Prague's Dvorak Hall, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Sydney Town Hall, Christchurch Cathedral, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and he has prepared choruses for performances under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Sir David Willcocks, Nicholas McGegan, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Neville Marriner, and Helmuth Rilling.

Kurt von Wessely

In 1901 and 1903 he reached the singles final at the Austrian Championship, played in Prague but on both occasions lost in straight sets to Major Ritchie.

Lack of outside support during the Warsaw Uprising

This basic scenario of an uprising against the Germans launched a few days before the arrival of Allied forces played out successfully in a number of European capitals, notably Paris and Prague.

Mbongeni Buthelezi

Buthelezis works have been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of African Art in New York, the Goch Museum in Germany as well as the Prague Biennale.

Miloslav Hamr

In March 1936, he teamed with Gertrude Kleinová to win the gold medal in the Mixed Doubles 10th World Table Tennis Championships in Prague, in a competition that saw them defeat Americans Buddy Blattner and Jay Purves in the preliminaries as they won 21–19 in the fifth game.

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Prague 2

Important sights:Charles Square- the biggest square in Prague and also among the biggest squares in Europe - with the New City Hall / Gothic town hall, Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Botanical Gardens and several Charles University buildingsin Albertov, as well as the Baroque Villa America.

Prague uprising

Red Army arrived unexpectedly in Prague on May 9, took the city, ended the conflict, and paved the way for the Czech government to arrive from both East and West.

Rabí Castle

Rabí or Rábí is ruined castle in Southwestern Bohemia (Plzeň Region), situated on a prominent hill by the central course of the River Otava, in the foothills of Šumava region, 130 km from Prague, Czech Republic.

Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech

Deech is the daughter of the late historian and journalist, Josef Fraenkel (b. 1903, Ustrzyki Dolne, now Poland) who fled Vienna and then Prague from the Nazis.

Sabena Flight 548

Sabena Flight 548, registration OO-SJB, was a Boeing 707 aircraft that crashed en route to Brussels, Belgium, from New York City on February 15, 1961, killing the entire United States Figure Skating team on its way to the 1961 World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Sainte-Chapelle

As the status of Saint Louis grew among Europe's aristocracy, the influence of his famous chapel also extended beyond France, with important copies at Karlštejn Castle near Prague (c.1360), the Hofburgkapelle in Vienna (consecrated 1449) and Exeter College, Oxford (1860).

Society for Experimental Biology

The main meeting is held in the UK or continental Europe (Swansea, Wales, 2002; Southampton, England, 2003; Edinburgh, Scotland, 2004; Barcelona, Spain, 2005; Canterbury, England, 2006; Glasgow, Scotland 2007, 2009, 2011; Marseille, France, 2008; Prague, Czech Republic, 2010; Salzburg, Austria, 2012; Valencia, Spain, planned for 2013).

Somerset County Youth Orchestra

It has given concerts in prestigious locations, among them Old Town Square in Prague, La Madeleine in Paris, and the Leonardo museum in Vinci.

St. Longin's Rotunda

St. Longin's Rotunda (Prague, Na Rybníčku) is one of the few preserved romanesque rotundas in Prague.

Vladimir Rebikov

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

Wenceslaus Linck

Born in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic), he entered the Jesuit order at age 18 and studied at Brno and Prague.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague

The emergence of an outstanding conductor, Johann Joseph Strobach, who built the opera orchestra of Prague into one of the greatest orchestral ensembles in central Europe, was also critical in attracting Mozart to the city, as was the prominence of the Duschek couple (Franz Xaver and Josepha, who had unprecedented international connections for musicians from Prague who chose not leave the Bohemian lands.

Yitzchak Lowy

From October 1911 through 1912 the troupe stated in Prague, where Lowy became good friends with Franz Kafka.